{"id":33703,"date":"2017-01-22T05:42:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T13:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/learn-how-this-family-grows-6000-lbs-of-food-on-just-110th-acre-urban-homestead"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:54:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:54:38","slug":"learn-how-this-family-grows-6000-lbs-of-food-on-just-110th-acre-urban-homestead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/learn-how-this-family-grows-6000-lbs-of-food-on-just-110th-acre-urban-homestead","title":{"rendered":"Learn How This Family Grows 6,000 Lbs Of Food on Just 1\/10th Acre \u2013 Urban Homestead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NCmTJkZy0rM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There 7.68 billion acres of arable land. if everyone did this and lived one one tenth of an acre then that\u2019s room for 76 billion people just on the arable land where there is actually 36 billion acres of land on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>If farming were turned into vertical farming building with ten floors a piece at 1\/10th and acre per level that\u2019s 760 billion. At 100 floors that\u2019d be 7.6 trillion. I would need to review an Isaac Arthur video about the maximum occupancy of the planet, there may be heat problems with trillions of people on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>A tenth of an acre would be a square around 65 \u00d7 65 feet, or so.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Over 6,000 pounds of food per year, on 1\/10 acre located just 15 minutes from downtown Los Angeles. The Dervaes family grows over 400 species of plants, 4,300 pounds of vegetable food, 900 chicken and 1,000 duck eggs, 25 lbs of honey, plus seasonal fruits throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>From 1\/10th of an acre, four people manage to get over 90% of their daily food and the family reports earnings of $20,000 per year (AFTER they eat from what is produced). This is done without the use of the expensive &amp; destructive synthetic chemicals associated with industrial mono-cropping, while simultaneously improving the fertility and overall condition of the land being used to grow this food on. Scaled up to an acre, that would equal $200,000 per year!<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/learn-how-this-family-grows-6000-lbs-of-food-on-just-110th-acre-urban-homestead\">Continue reading \u201cLearn How This Family Grows 6,000 Lbs Of Food on Just 1\/10th Acre \u2013 Urban Homestead\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There 7.68 billion acres of arable land. if everyone did this and lived one one tenth of an acre then that\u2019s room for 76 billion people just on the arable land where there is actually 36 billion acres of land on the planet. If farming were turned into vertical farming building with ten floors a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59028,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33703\/revisions\/59028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}